Contentment
You can’t have everything. Where will you put it? (Ann Landers, advice columnist)
Landers’ comment may be somewhat facetious, but her statement is true in more than one way. First of all, look at your neighbors’ garages or the multitude of storage units in your town—and they’re still building them. But what is even more important, we cram our lives and hearts with stuff, yearnings, and hopes only to find they don’t satisfy. Look for those things that will last.
Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. . . . So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content. (1 Timothy 6:6, 8)